Most Europeans think governments will miss climate goals, poll finds

FILE PHOTO: A thermometer mounted on a wall of the headquarters of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) shows a temperature of 40 Celsius degrees in Bonn, Germany July 31, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A majority of European Union citizens think their government will fail to tackle climate change, which Europeans view as the biggest challenge facing humanity this century, a survey published by the European Investment Bank on Wednesday showed.

Of 27,700 survey respondents in the EU's 27 countries, 58% said they believed their country would fail to drastically reduce its CO2 emissions by 2050, the EIB's climate survey found.